Inside the First Prison Film Festival at San Quentin

The main gate to San Quentin state prison.

No standing ovation on the Cannes or Sundance movie festivals may match the distinctive emotional depth of 1 delivered to a filmmaker named B. Raheem Ballard on Thursday afternoon inside a stuffy chapel at San Quentin.  That morning, Ballard, who has been incarcerated for 22 years on expenses of theft and homicide, missed the world … Read more